Product Details

• Actors: James Earl Jones, Wes Studi, James Garner, Wayne Mitchell
• Directors: Chip Richie, Steven R. Heape
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Rich-Heape Films, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ELJ3E4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,244 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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139 of 145 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cherokee View of a Cherokee Legacy, March 10, 2006

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Buffalo Trails (Elk City, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (DVD)

My family watched the DVD last night and it is a great film. It is everything we expected it to be. It really evokes some strong emotions (my daughter started crying), and it delivers this legacy of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw tribes and other indian people of the area in a frank, straight forward manner.



Wes Studi does a wonderful job, and speaks the Cherokee language eloquently as the story of the Cherokee trail of tears unfolds in a long over-due examination of this Cherokee legacy. James Earl Jones' presence is a strong statement in itself, not to mention his unique way of making almost anything interesting and he adds a feeling of authenticity to the film. The closed captioning is a definite plus and the beauty of the scenery in the Cherokee's ancestral homelands was breathtaking.



A big thanks go to the Cherokee Tribe and to Rich-Heape Films, Inc. for granting Public Performance Rights to schools and libraries. I will be sending a copy to my sister today. She is the principal at the Wakpala Indian School in South Dakota. She puts the videos and music into the School Library system where they are made available to the students who check them out like they do books.

149 of 159 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A picture is worth a thousand words, August 12, 2006

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B. Evans "Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape" (Montclair NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (DVD)

This is just the type of film I want to show my university students. It's so difficult to bring home the sufferings of Native American people. We have been seen as savage war mongers who tried to ebb the tide of civilization. I am not a Cherokee, I am a Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape. I teach a history course on the impact of colonialism on indigenous people. This film saves me a lot of lecturing and makes it easier for me to move around the continent and around the world in my discussions. This film forms the basis of what I'm trying reveal, whether I talk about Australian Aborigines, Africans,the Chinese, East Indians, Aztecs, Maoris or Hawaiians. Thank you guys for putting it out there.

53 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent overview of Cherokee history and the Trail of Tears, October 26, 2006

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Cherokee Susannah - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (DVD)

This is an excellent film for anyone interested in learning about the history of the tribes that were removed from their ancestral lands.

It is comprenhensive and has some excellent scholars and credible historians providing great detail as to what led to the historical atrocity known as the Trail of Tears.

Many people died during the summer of 1838 and it seemed few cared about this. No one attempted to really stop it which is the sad part about it.

It is believed that at least 4,000 Cherokee Indian people died during the removals to the west. This is a historical fact that few people seem to be aware of.

It is a sad reality that must be faced and restituion is most certainly due to those involved in this genocidal aspect of American history.

I find it almost amazing to know that this occurred less than 200 years ago and that so very few people seem to know or care about what happened. Genocide is ugly but is has a face that will never go away.